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It’s been over a week now for our blended teaching/learning situation in these trying times where everyone is facing challenges with different tasks.
As a classroom teacher, now the online guide for my chosen and lucky angels, well, the everyday hurdles have been difficult, challenging and sometimes taxing on the psyche. Yes, all my learners are not able only because they do not have the required technology like android cellphone, ipad, desktop, laptop or any educational device few lucky ones have.
Well, given the said situation, I, for one, believe that parents can do something worthwhile for their children’s education by making all efforts to have a functional cellphone for an online class. However, there are various reasons why some parents choose to provide for their children only keeping in mind the current trends of poverty, unemployment, lack of education or education and especially due to this COVID-19 pandemic Do not keep ,
Anyway, there are pros and cons to distance education, especially blended learning, for kids and parents alike.
pros
1. Kids can now have plenty of time to navigate various applications so that the lessons can be absorbed, applied in their daily grind.
2. Parents can see how their kids are utilizing their learning time. They could also help them budget their time so that all the tasks at hand can be done without leaving other tasks behind. Teachers, like me, are sending home guides to their students, serving as references, to cover their topics for a specific amount of time, including several minutes.
3. Children can show off their skills in using the Internet, for example researching a story to read, a photo to write an essay, and gathering facts and social information about important events in history, especially during the holidays. Mention other memory exercises in science subjects. One.
4. Parents have time to help their children with their work in reading and writing, likewise the difficulties their children face in arithmetic, science, etc.
5. Children also have time to be more talkative in front of their camera or what happens when answering questions, sharing stories and other activities where speaking is the goal, especially when they How to express yourself, less confident in face-to-face interactions.
6. Parents, mostly, get a chance to learn, in a way review their previous schooling; Of course, with updated information where irrelevant information was changed to more appropriate, especially with science topics, the number of planets, and so on.
7. Kids also have the opportunity to become world citizens to learn all about the Internet of Things and collaborate with other learners around the world. Yes, teachers should have a buddy teacher from another country, for example a science class in the Philippines co-teaching with a science class in the United States about different scenarios during the winter, and of course the sunshine in the Philippines. Season. Videos, photos and the like Both learners in these two countries can learn a lot from each and every slide presentation shared through Google Meet, Zoom meeting, among other technological tools for this purpose.
Shortcoming
1. Kids without reliable internet connections are left behind when it comes to online learning. However, with the modules available around; Well, everyone gets a chance to learn concepts, models and deep learning once a conscientious teacher implements enrichment or remedial programs for them. Yes, creativity is important to provide all learning opportunities to children who face technical challenges in online learning. Apart from the lack of those gadgets like Android cellphones, lappies or desktops, internet load also becomes a hindrance when parents are unemployed, in abject poverty and you know who else.
2. Parents become more stressed when their kids can’t keep up with their kids’ competition with their peers, neighbors, and other scenarios about unequal opportunities, a sad reality for the majority in my class. Relates to the situation in which living with Juan is impossible to do.
3. Kids who are enterprising and all resort to online cheating. Yes, there is a group chat where answers to modules are being uploaded and a lazy bone will just copy paste those and viola, get the correct score, later recognition as highest honors and so on. Oh my, this pathetic state of education can be a training ground for future leaders who will do it not for self-aggrandizement, but for self-aggrandizement, and so on.
4. The entire burden is on the parents when their children have not yet shown time management, discipline and honesty in doing their work, eg reviewing lessons before going online, answering modules honestly Give etc.
5. Kids have more time to get side-tracked by different things in the internet. Yes, some people are good at navigating different sites and they can be in great danger when they open some dangerous websites unsuitable for their mental age, contaminating their innocent mind with garbage and other ideologies. which may harm rather than help them improve their literacy and numeracy challenges.
6. Parents having trouble responding to modality with their kids especially when they have more than 10 kids within a week and they have 4 kids with this modality. Yet, in online class, when an android cellphone is available, how can they have equal time to participate when they cannot face low internet signal, load and other challenges that exist in home need .
you go there If you come out free from such challenges, then you are lucky that you are facing all these challenges, and will emerge victorious in this difficult time with the persistence of learning. However, patience, resilience and persistence can be our saving grace when faced with these glaring realities. Whatever may be the challenges in our way towards the journey of teaching/learning, we always expect the best result through our best effort. Keep your head high, always. Stay safe, sane and sane. encourage!
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